Project Management: RESPONSIBILITY MATRIX

Steps Involved in Setting Up a Responsibility Matrix

(for large projects, a separate responsibility matrix should be developed for each subproject)

Listing the major activities in the project (in the matrix rows)
Listing the stakeholder group (in the matrix columns)
Specifying the involvement level, authority role, and responsibility of each stakeholder by codifying the responsibility matrix
Incorporating the responsibility matrix into the project rules; the original version of the responsibility matrix and all future changes in it must be approved by project stakeholders

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Setting Up a Responsibility Matrix

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Incorporate the responsibility matrix in the project rules. The responsibility matrix becomes part of the project rules, which means that once it is accepted, all changes must be approved by those who approved the original version. The advantage to this change management process is that the project manager is always left with a written document to refer to in the event of a dispute... More

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